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        <a id="mutter" name="mutter"></a>Mutter-3.34.4
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        <h2 class="sect2">
          Introduction to Mutter
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        <p>
          <span class="application">Mutter</span> is the window manager for
          <span class="application">GNOME</span>. It is not invoked directly,
          but from <span class="application">GNOME Session</span> (on a
          machine with a hardware accelerated video driver).
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          This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.1
          platform.
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          Package Information
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                Download (HTTP): <a class="ulink" href=
                "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/3.34/mutter-3.34.4.tar.xz">
                http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/3.34/mutter-3.34.4.tar.xz</a>
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                Download (FTP): <a class="ulink" href=
                "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/3.34/mutter-3.34.4.tar.xz">
                ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/mutter/3.34/mutter-3.34.4.tar.xz</a>
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                Download MD5 sum: de19a6de98a2250dd7efdfca14359e39
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                Download size: 2.7 MB
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                Estimated disk space required: 216 MB
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                Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
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          Mutter Dependencies
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          Required
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          <a class="xref" href="gnome-desktop.html" title=
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          and <a class="xref" href="zenity.html" title=
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          Recommended
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          <a class="xref" href="../general/desktop-file-utils.html" title=
          "desktop-file-utils-0.24">desktop-file-utils-0.24</a>, <a class=
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          Recommended (Required to build the Wayland compositor)
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          <a class="xref" href="../x/x7driver.html#libinput" title=
          "libinput-1.15.1">libinput-1.15.1</a>, <a class="xref" href=
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          "Wayland-Protocols-1.18">wayland-protocols-1.18</a>, and <a class=
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          "Xorg-Server-1.20.7">Xorg-Server-1.20.7</a> (with <span class=
          "command"><strong>Xwayland</strong></span>). Additionally,
          <a class="xref" href="../x/gtk3.html" title=
          "GTK+-3.24.13">GTK+-3.24.13</a> needs to be built with <span class=
          "application">Wayland</span> support.
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          Recommended (Runtime)
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          <a class="xref" href="../general/blocaled.html" title=
          "blocaled-0.2">blocaled-0.2</a>
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        <p class="usernotes">
          User Notes: <a class="ulink" href=
          "http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mutter">http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mutter</a>
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          Installation of Mutter
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        <p>
          Install <span class="application">Mutter</span> by running the
          following commands:
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        <pre class="userinput">
<kbd class="command">mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson --prefix=/usr -Dprofiler=false .. &amp;&amp;
ninja</kbd>
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        <p>
          To test the results, issue: <span class="command"><strong>ninja
          test</strong></span>. The tests require an active X session to run
          correctly. Some (18 of 92) tests require a wayland based session.
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          Now, as the <code class="systemitem">root</code> user:
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<kbd class="command">ninja install</kbd>
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          Contents
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Programs:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">mutter</span>
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Libraries:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">libmutter-5.so</span>
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Directories:</strong>
              <span class=
              "segbody">/usr/{lib,include,libexec/installed-tests,share/{installed-tests}}/mutter-5</span>
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            Short Descriptions
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                  <p>
                    <a id="mutter-prog" name="mutter-prog"></a><span class=
                    "term"><span class=
                    "command"><strong>mutter</strong></span></span>
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                  <p>
                    is a <span class="application">Clutter</span> based
                    compositing <span class="application">GTK+</span> Window
                    Manager.
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                  <p>
                    <a id="libmutter" name="libmutter"></a><span class=
                    "term"><code class=
                    "filename">libmutter-5.so</code></span>
                  </p>
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                <td>
                  <p>
                    contains the <span class="application">Mutter</span> API
                    functions.
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        Last updated on 2020-02-26 22:00:52 -0800
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